1969 Stanley Cup Finals

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The 1969 Stanley Cup Finals was a best-of-seven series played from April 27 to May 4, 1969, between the defending champions Montreal Canadiens and the St. Louis Blues, the same finalists as in 1968. As they had done the previous year, the Canadiens would win the series in four straight games.

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Paths to the Finals

Montreal defeated the New York Rangers 4-0 and the Boston Bruins 4-2 to advance to the finals.

St. Louis defeated the Philadelphia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings in four games each.

Maps 1969 Stanley Cup Finals

Game summaries

This was the second playoff series between these two teams. Their only previous meeting came in the previous year's Stanley Cup final. In this year's six-game regular season series, there were five wins for Montreal and one tie.

Claude Ruel became the eleventh rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup. Montreal goaltender Rogie Vachon limited St. Louis to three goals in four games. In the process, he earned his first career playoff shutout.

Game one

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Montreal Canadiens 1969 Stanley Cup champions

Players

Stanley Cup engraving

• Anthony "Tony" Esposito's name was misspelled on the Replica Stanley Cup created in 1992-93 as P. FSPOSITO instead of A. ESPOSITO.
• Claude Ruel was the 10th NHL rookie coach to win the Stanley Cup.
• &-Gilles Tremblay missed the playoffs with a career ending injury. His name was still included on the Stanley Cup.
• &-Lucien Grenier played 2 Semi-Finals games, but name was left off the Stanley Cup even though he qualified to be engraved on it
• ^-name was left off the Stanley Cup, but qualified to be included.

Won 4 Stanley Cups in 5 Years with Montreal 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969

Ralph Backstrom, Jean Béliveau, Yvan Cournoyer, Dick Duff, John Ferguson, Terry Harper, Ted Harris, Jacques Laperrière, Claude Provost, Henri Richard, Bobby Rousseau, Gilles Tremblay, Jean-Claude Tremblay, Gump Worsley (14 players), David Molson, Sam Pollock, Larry Aubut (3 non-players).

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See also

• 1968-69 NHL season

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Notes

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References

• Diamond, Dan, ed. (2000). Total Stanley Cup. NHL.
• Podnieks, Andrew; Hockey Hall of Fame (2004). Lord Stanley's Cup. Triumph Books. ISBN 978-1-55168-261-7.

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